It is generally the opinion among quite a number of Catholic observers of the American scene since the 1960s that standards of admission to and training in seminaries have been questionable over the last few decades.
Crisis magazine, a conservative Catholic journal, has run articles on this. Kenneth Woodward of
Newsweek has commented on this. The recent book
Goodbye! Good Men:How Catholic Seminaries Turned Away Two Generations of Vocations From the Priesthood by Michael Rose advances a thesis along these lines. Prof. James Hitchock's
The Pope and the Jesuits, a 1983 expose book on liberal trends, heretical dissent, and corruption in the American Church, is very critical of the radical modernization and de-Catholicization of American Catholic religious life and the training of priests. This has definitely included the American homosexual movement's infiltration of the Church in the U.S.
The book 'Goodbye! Good Men': Click Here
Deal Hudson's "Newsletter" on myths of priestly pedophilia is available from Crisis magazine's site:
....and if you REALLY want to blow your mind, read Malachi Martin's books
The Pope and the Jesuits, and
Windswept House.I have a friend who swears that the Windswept book is about real people, and he even has an identification key for the characters--provided by Malachi Martin.